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Xen and X#: One and the Same
After news broke more than a year ago regarding Microsoft’s plans to develop an XML programming language, company officials abruptly stopped talking about the so-called X# language. Some claimed Microsoft had killed the language. Others said Microsoft had temporarily shelved it. It turns out that X# is alive and well – and is now going…
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Hon Hai’s Foxconn Arm To Enter Motherboard Mart
Foxconn Inc., also known as Hon Hai Precision Co. Ltd., said this week that it will enter the motherboard market with its own branded products, competing to some extent with its own customers. Hon Hai, a $10 billion firm and Taiwan’s largest private manufacturer, shopped approximately 26 million motherboards last year to its customers, which…
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Switch, Software Upgrades Take Aim at Enterprise Video
The push is on to make IP-based video more common place within the walls of the enterprise. In two separate announcements on Tuesday, communications vendors offered new approaches for enabling more real-time video and presentation broadcasts. CoSine Communications Inc. announced an update to its switch platform for carriers and services providers that will allow them…
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Siebel Boosts Hosted Services with Ineto Buy
Siebel Systems Inc. added to its growing portfolio of hosted customer relationship management service offerings with the acquisition Tuesday of Ineto Services Inc. in a cash deal worth up to $5 million. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company will offer Ineto’s hosted contact center service provider services as a part of its Siebel CRM OnDemand offering,…
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AppForge’s Crossfire Mobilizes .Net
AppForge Inc. has started shipping its first mobile and wireless application development environment for Microsoft Corp.’s .Net platform. Crossfire, which launched on Monday, is designed to support a wide range of device operating systems—specifically those beyond Microsoft’s. Visit the Ziff Davis Channel Zone’s .NET News Center. “Crossfire, as the name implies, is the ability to…
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Intel: Itanium Tweaks on Deck
Intel Corp. plans to create a smaller core, add new power management features and reduce the price of its 64-bit Itanium processor. But the 4-year-old chip could still fail to meet earlier projections for its uptake by customers due to competition and a less robust server market than previously forecast. New technologies such as common…
